The Ezbekeeyeh, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Street scene, showing Egyptian domestic architecture. 'In the north-west corner of the city is a large irregular tract, called the 'El-Ezbekeeyah,' of 'Birket El-Ezbekeeyah,' named after the Emeer El-Ezbekee. It is nearly half a mile long, and about a thir...
The Mosque of El-Hakim, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the tower and minaret of the ruined Al-Hakim Mosque, with ruined archways and columns in the foreground. The following description is given in Sir E.A. Wallis Budge, 'Cook's handbook for Egypt and the Egyptian Sudan' (London, 1921), p. 169: ...
The Bab el-Azab, Citadel, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith 151' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards the gateway, flanked by fortified towers, with horses and a tent in the foreground: 'The Bab El-'Azab, so called because it is in the lower circuit of the Citadel, or the circuit of the...
The Mosque of Kaitbey, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith 165' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the mosque and tomb complex of Qait Bey, looking towards the dome and minaret, with a small flat-domed tomb supported on pillars in the foreground.
Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Caption sub-titled: 'With the Mosque of Mohammad 'Alee, from a cemetery to the south-east, at the foot of the Gebel El-Mukattam.' Distant view of the Citadel, with the Mosque of Muhamad Ali rising prominently a...
Street view in Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a narrow street lined with balconied houses, towards minarets in the background: 'The street in this view gives an idea of the repose of Eastern life in the Muslim quarters, undisturbed by association with the bustling, anxious European ...
Portico of the Temple of Dendera. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking along the northern colonnaded façade of the outer hypostyle hall of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, half-buried in sand, with an Arab figure posed at the base of one of the columns, beside a tent (pres...
Cleopatra's Temple at Erment. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View of standing columns and temple ruins at Armant, a few miles south of Thebes. Most of the temples remains at Armant were destroyed in the course of the 19th century,
Osiridae pillars and Fallen Colossus, at the Memnonium, Thebes [frontispiece]. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View of two of the Osirid pillars of the second court of the Ramesseum at Thebes, with massive fragments of sculpture to the right: 'The largest, and probably the most beautiful colossal statue ever produced, was er...
The Rameseum, Thebes. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography General view of the ruins of the Ramesseum, the mortuary temple of Rameses II at Thebes.